Composed by K. Jose
04.30.2018
Composition style was based on the SN76489 PSG chip as used in Sega
cartridge-based systems.
3 square tone channels, 1 noise channel
16 volume levels per channel
Composition style was primarily inspired by music on Sega cartridge-based
game console systems (SG-1000/2000/Mark II, SC-3000, Mark III/Master System,
Mega Drive/Genesis).
For ease, I had to use two noise channels, but I took extensive use of volume
level 0, especially when there is still noise playing on the channel right
when the other channel begins to play, so it sounds like only one single
channel was used, and whenever the noise was done playing, to keep the noise
generation as genuine as possible. Additionally, I only triggered the
pseudorandom noise note once at the beginning of the song, and the rest of
the triggers were taken care of by the volume commands.
Recommended playback settings: Use at least 22050hz (44100+hz recommended),
with No Interpolation and no volume ramping. If you're listening through
OpenMPT, you may not need to change your interpolation settings because I set
the instrument interpolation to None.
All samples were reduced to 8-bit. Since these tones are simple tones (PSG
square tone and generated noise), it should not affect quality that severely.
